Trump in TOTAL FREAK OUT Mode as IT ALL Comes CRUMBLING DOWN...

The party of the dirty tricks, MAGA, the Republican Party, are clutching at their pearls and calling foul because there's two people named Dan Sullivan on the Alaska Senate ballot. Oh my, what are the Alaskans to do? Maybe they won't be able to figure out, despite the fact that it's listed that way on the ballot, that one is the incumbent Republican senator and the other is, well, a guy named Dan Sullivan. This is the oldest trick in the book. I don't know if Mary Peltola or her campaign were behind it, but who cares? You're allowed to run if your name happens to be Michael Mouse and you want to run as Mickey Mouse, you can do that. If you want to run as Donald J. Trump and that's your name and you want to run on a ballot, you're allowed to do that. And the Alaskan courts have already looked at the issue and said, yeah, the other Dan Sullivan can run. Trump's making a big deal out of it. Oh, there's crimes that have been committed. Mary Peltola, because they know she's going to win, because they know that Alaska doesn't want to be abused by the federal government and be called stupid that they don't know which Dan Sullivan is which. And so I think this actually helps Mary Peltola, much the way it helped El Saeed in Michigan to have a Democrat endorse his Senate opponent. Backfire, backfire, backfire. We cover it all on the Legal AF podcast, and here's a clip. So, and then you see this last scam is the one in Alaska. You've got Mary Peltola, who was this close to winning the Senate seat in the open primary. She got 49.5% of the vote, eight points above the Republican, the incumbent, in the open primary, where Democrats and Republicans run against each other. Then, for whatever reason, and we'll sort it out eventually, either somebody in her campaign or related to her campaign may or may not have recruited another Dan Sullivan. In retrospect, she didn't need any help. Well, by the way, Popak, the Dan Sullivan, to your point, was in the primary and got two and a half percent of the vote. Yeah, which wasn't enough. And wasn't enough. Exactly. And go ahead. I just wanted to point that out because even if, you know, even if you added both Dan Sullivans, Mary Peltola would still have won. Absolutely. And you have all these people from. You know, states that are not Alaska saying the people in Alaska don't know what the word incumbent means. They don't know what they're doing. They don't know who Dan Sullivan. I mean, it's like people in Alaska, like, yes, we do. We know exactly what to your point. If there were quote unquote, dirty tricks. That doesn't disqualify, and Mary was involved or not involved, it does not disqualify her from the ballot. Every level of court in Alaska, from the Superior Court up to the State Supreme Court, Alaska's Supreme Court, has ruled that there was no monkey business, there was no funny business, and there was no reason, no reason under the laws of Alaska to ban any Dan Sullivans. So it's going to be 10 Dan Sullivans. From doing, for whatever reason, they wanted to do it. It's up to the voter to decide what they're going to do. And I live in Miami. It is commonplace for somebody with a Hispanic last name to get a shadow candidate with a similar name to try to confuse the voters. That's one of the oldest tricks in the book. I hate to tell people, it sounds like it should be, it's generally not a crime. I've had people, look, the guy that's running for Attorney General of Florida, who I just had on the show, Jose Javier Rodriguez, he's a Cuban-American, to try to defeat Governor DeSantis, his hand-picked AG. He lost the Senate race because they ran another Rodriguez against him. And that was funded. This is all proven in a lawsuit that was funded by a major supermarket chain. This happens all, I'm not saying Mary did it, but this happens all the time. I was asked on a show that I went on, it was Harvey Levin at TMZ, and he was like, well, doesn't this make you angry? Doesn't this make you mad? Like from a moral perspective, isn't this just doing what Donald Trump does? I go, absolutely not. I said, look, I can look at it and say, do I love this conduct? Like, am I a cheerleader? For shenanigans, do I like it? I'm like, I don't like it. I'm not rooting for that. But in the swing of things that we're dealing with, I said, I think I'm more concerned about James Comer's hair dye than I am concerned about Dan Sullivan when one says incumbent. I said, because I have to look at what are the laws? What are we talking about here? And what Alaska has said over and over again at the election board level, at the superior court level, and then at the Supreme Court level, is that there is no good faith standard in Alaska in terms of how someone gets on the ballot. As long as that's your name and that is the person's name, anybody can recruit the person. The opponent can recruit the person as long as you're eligible to run. You could run. And what Mary Peltola put in her court filings is why are you asking us to talk about the motivation of Dan Sullivan to run? Like Dan Sullivan's a human being. Like he's like he's the other Dan Sullivan. Go ask him. You know, he's running. I mean, he's putting himself out there. He's putting his name on the ballot. He could have decided to run or he could have decided not to run. The only one who could possibly know Daniel J. Sullivan's true reason for filing a candidate is Daniel J. Sullivan. So like, this isn't something like- Wait, how weak is the incumbent that a guy that only pulled two and a half percent in the open primary is a threat to him getting reelected? That's not the threat to him getting reelected. But as you said, you and I can, we could write a television TV script about it. It's kind of interesting. Is it illegal? Does it disenfranchise people? Not in the least. And then, to your point, and then does it make you angry? Does it make you upset? Like, I mean, you want to talk about what's going on in Alaska while Polar LNG, the main LNG company, seems to actually have been a front for the Russian LNG company that was sanctioned in Siberia and that Trump was using, and it seems that the Trump regime was using. Abu Dhabi intermediaries to basically get Russia to take over liquefied natural gas That bothers me slightly freaking more than Dan Sullivan, which the thing that Donald Trump hates is that it's ranked choice voting in Alaska, which means you have to spend a considerable amount of time with the ballot to rank your choices. And it says Dan Sullivan, no party affiliation. next to one guy an incumbent Republican against the other and you got to spend time with a pencil to rank or it's not a bubble like I could see if the two Dan Sullivans were like like in Miami like the two Gonzalez's were like right next to each other and oh there we go this is how Pat Buchanan got all the votes instead of Al Gore in 2000 because they were there's a ballot was like all aligned weird that's not what's happening here it's ranked choice voting and so I don't even understand the entire argument, but before we flip to the next segment, I do want to play a great clip. I've had. As people know here, I've had the great honor, along with Ben, to have the ACLU as our collaborators and friends over on Legal AF YouTube channel. We have the NAACP on regularly with us, Democracy Forward, Mark Elias, all the people that are in the trenches. Katie Fang and her lawyers defending democracy and the rule of law. And I just had Yasmin Kader, who's the deputy executive director of the ACLU. And I think people are going to be comforted by hearing from Yasmin just hours before Tuesday's election about what their role should be. I mean, our audience and what the ACLU and the other groups are prepared to do. Let's play the clip. I think it's really important for people to know what is real. And what is fiction? And the most important part, the most important part is that people feel and understand that they are protected, and that they can and should go and exercise their rights to vote. So what we're seeing is all these different attempts at interference, right? The government is coming from all these different angles, seeking to purge people from voter rolls, seeking to throw like just Mistrust and disavow the integrity of the elections through these different efforts, and it isn't working. As you noted, 27 different courts, for example, have weighed in and said, yeah, no, you don't get to do that. It's not real. That's fake. And so what we're doing is we're really closely monitoring all of these efforts, efforts at purging, efforts at disrupting people's ability to cast their votes. You know, we're anticipating challenges to certification. You know, we have 25 different scenarios ourselves that we've worked through. And what we're doing is we're ready and we're prepared. At each one of those stages, at the voting stage, at the counting stage, at the certification stage, and then, as you mentioned, at the seating stage. And so we're prepared for any and all efforts. We're litigating them in court. We're making sure that people are aware of their rights, which is one of the most important parts. And one of the things that we want people to be grounded in is this. Your vote matters. If it wasn't so important, people in power wouldn't be trying so hard to take it away. Yeah, and that's the number one, I asked her at the end, what was the number one thing that she wanted our audience to know? And it's what you and I have been talking about throughout our reporting and commentary. You need to vote. You vote and everything else will be taken care of in litigation by groups like the ACLU. But it starts and ends with you voting. That's it. Welcome back. We sit at the intersection of law and politics, so you don't have to. Every Wednesday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern time on the Midas Touch Legal AF podcast. You're here on the Legal AF YouTube channel. Hit that free subscribe button to help us to continue to grow our pro-democracy channel. Until my next report, I'm Michael Popock. 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